These giants were almost completely logged. Some of the remaining ones are 3000 years old!

After visiting Grant Grove, we camped in the adjacent National Forest. We've discovered that now that summer is over, things are starting to close, like campsites.

But we don't mind, we love camping for free!

Next day we drove into Kings Canyon and this is about as much as we saw....

....'cause we broke down.

This is how Angie and Kipper spent the day. Meanwhile I got a ride with a Park Ranger to the nearest pay phone since there was no cell service. He dropped me at the visitor's center that had closed just that morning for the season. Luckily the phones still worked.

Kipper taking it in stride.

Apparently Kings Canyon falls on the border between Northern and Southern California, at least according to AAA. I spent several hours getting bounced between the two of them until they finally dispatched the tow truck. Michael's Towing to the rescue!

LeTigre gets a ride to the nearest town...

...where she gets unloaded at the local O'Reilly Auto Parts store.

Sunset at the strip mall.

The culprit. A $50 belt tensioner. Took about 15 minutes to actually fix it but all day to get there. Sadly, we never made it back to Kings Canyon but stay tuned because Sequoia National Park more than made up for it...

After enjoying our time in St. Louis, we headed south to Memphis to visit... Graceland! Elvis was only 22 when he purchased the col...

Travel Wisdom by Paul Theroux

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. Travel is not merely the business of being bone-idle, but also an elaborate bumming evasion, allowing us to call attention to ourselves with our conspicuous absence while we intrude upon other people’s privacy - being actively offensive as fugitive freeloaders.

Life Wisdom by Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

About

We met many many moons ago in Austin, TX (please don't move there). Angie went to UT and worked in non-profits as a program manager. Greg worked in various fields and played the drums. We lived, we worked, we laughed, we played. Then, in 2011, one of us had a birthday that didn't sit well and convinced the other one to quit her job and travel the U.S. in a tiny (TINY) RV with our dog. The other one went along with it because, what the heck else was she to do? and packed up the TINY RV with their not-so-tiny dog and they traveled for a year. 43 U.S. states and 7 Canadian provinces later, we're still together and now both are 110% sold on the travel thing. In 2015, we bought another camper van. And our adventures continue, with the same three characters. The end goal? Not so much a goal as an idea. Maybe there will be some sailing involved. Definitely other countries. Hopefully, Panama...